Side Of Polygon

A Polygon has 27 diagonals, Find the Number of sides.


The answer is 9.

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2 solutions

let,number of sides=n total number of line segments =nC2 total no. of diagonals=nC2-n nC2 -n=27 [n*(n-1)/2]-n=27 n^2-3n=54 n=9,-6
Ans: n=9 since n cant be negetive....

Jashwanth Naidu
Apr 24, 2014

n(n-3)/2=27 Find n. n=9.This formula is used to find the number of diagnols with 'n' sides.

I also did by that way

Anuj Shikarkhane - 6 years, 11 months ago

Do you mean chords, rather than diagonals?

Bernard Northmore - 4 years, 5 months ago

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